PhD Student in Department of Political Science, Penn State
Mia A. Powell is a doctorate student at Penn State University's political science program. She studies American politics, and her research focuses on racial/ethnic politics, political behavior, and voting systems. Powell previously earned her bachelor's in Sociology with a minor in Political Science from California State University, Fullerton.
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Research Fellow in Medical Humanities, China and the UK, University of Strathclyde
Dr Mia Chen Ma received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Wuhan University and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign respectively.
She then earned her PhD in Chinese Literature and Culture from SOAS in 2022. She is currently revising her PhD thesis into a book, tentatively entitled Ecocriticism in Chinese Science Fiction: Risk, Failure, and Solastalgia (Brill). Her research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, speculative fictions, and ecocriticism.
Her research articles and book chapters have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of scholarly journals and edited volumes, including Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature: Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces, The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, Extrapolation, Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, SFRA Review, Vector, Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, etc. Her most recent research project focuses on cultures of care, and explores the intersection between medical and environmental humanities.
Research interests:
Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction
Risk discourse and Contemporary Chinese Society
Literature and Medical Humanities
Posthumanism and Taoism
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Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, Associate Professor of Ethnology and fellow at The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities, Lund University
My 4-year research project 2020–2023, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, concerns the anti-vaccination movement. The growing vaccination hesitancy characterized by extensive discussions on the internet, constitutes the empirical focus. The project also has a method developing purpose in examining how quantitaive (language technology) and qualitative (ethnographic) methods can be combined to an effective tool for exploring how arguments are established, emitted and circulated on the internet.
Since 2009 I have been employed as Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies and Journalism, and was Head of Department for four years. I am a trained ethnographer with a theoretical interest in phenomenology. For many years I have studied mediated scandals with focus on the emotions these moral moments of drama arouse, both in the individual and in society. I am also a trained journalist, and have worked for the Swedish Public Service Radio and Television.
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Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo
Dr. Yu Joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo as an Empire Innovation Professor in January 2021. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from August 2017 to January 2021. He was an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina (UofSC) between 2012 and 2017. Before joining UofSC, he was an assistant research professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder) from 2010 to 2012. He obtained B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2002) degrees from Tianjin University, China. He earned his Ph.D. degree from CU-Boulder in 2007, and subsequently worked in the same department as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2010. Dr. Yu has published >60 peer-reviewed papers, with two in Science and others in Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, JACS, Nano Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Catalysis, Chemical Communications, etc. He is a recipient of 2015 NSF Career Award.
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, Yale University
Micah is a fourth year PhD candidate at Yale University studying American politics. Micah researches Black politics, social movement mobilization, and the politics of gender and sexuality. Micah is also working on a project that locates hip-hop music and culture as a site for conservative politics. Micah currently serves as the graduate student representative on the APSA Sexuality & Politics research section. Prior to starting graduate school, Micah served as a non-profit consultant, a film publicist, and conducted research in the Sociology department at Georgetown University. Micah received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Duke University.
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Energy Economics Lecturer, Makerere University
Micah Lucy Abigaba is an energy economist and lecturer in the Business School at the Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She successfully defended her PhD thesis "Four essays on oil price uncertainty, optimal investment strategies and cost transmission of an oil price shock" at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
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Michael A. Livermore joined the faculty as an associate professor of law in 2013. His primary teaching and research interests are in administrative law, computational analysis of legal texts, environmental law, cost-benefit analysis and regulation. He has published numerous books, chapters and articles on these topics, with a special focus on the role of interest groups and public-choice dynamics in shaping the application and methodology of cost-benefit analysis.
Prior to joining the faculty, Livermore spent five years as the founding executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, a think tank dedicated to improving the quality of government decision-making through advocacy and scholarship in the areas of administrative law, cost-benefit analysis and regulation. During his time there, the institute participated in dozens of regulatory proceedings on a diverse set of issues ranging from climate change to prison safety.
Livermore earned his J.D. magna cum laude from NYU Law, where he was a Furman Scholar, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as a managing editor of the Law Review. After law school, he spent a year as a fellow at NYU Law's Center on Environmental and Land Use Law before clerking for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Professor Michael Adams is an internationally recognised specialist in corporate law, corporate governance, securities markets regulation (insider trading and market manipulation) and legal education (especially e-learning). Michael has been writing, teaching and regularly presenting on all these topics for over 25 years. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE), as well as the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL), and is also a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (FCIS/FGIA-Life). Professor Adams is formerly President of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, the Corporate Law Teachers Association and Chartered Secretaries Australia (now Governance Institute). He is Deputy Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) and a director of the Australian Academy of Law, director of Australian Pro Bono Centre, and the charity, FreedomHub. He is the co-author of ten books and chapters, 50 articles and over 180 conference/seminar presentations. In 2000 he was the recipient of the Australian University Teacher of the year for Law and Legal Studies.
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Research Fellow in Earth Sciences, Australian National University
I am a Research Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. My main research focus is on the deep geological processes that lead to the formation of critical metal deposits. I also have broad interests in science policy and science communication.
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Associate Professor of Criminology & English Literature, Western University
Former police detective turned award-winning university professor, author of 10 books on criminal investigation, television host and true crime broadcaster, founder of the Western Cold Case Society & director of the Murder Accountability Project (murderdata.org) in Washington DC. Also an associate with the Center for Homicide Research in Minneapolis and senior member of the Atypical Homicide Research Group in Boston. Scholarly book series editor for the Criminal Humanities collection with Peter Lang Publishing in NYC and previous Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Chair at Vanderbilt U in Nashville. Winner of Western's 2017 Humanitarian of the Year for my research on unsolved murders & victim narratives.
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Professor of Psychological Science, University of Bristol
An expert in the science of social connection and interaction, Michael has worked as a social neuroscientist for over ten years, producing over 100 publications that have been featured in many media outlets. He studies affection, communication, emotion, empathy, and touch. He has received awards from the British Psychological Society and the European Society of Cognitive Psychology for outstanding contributions to psychological research.
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Michael Beckley is an associate professor of political science at Tufts University and a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
His research on great power competition has received awards from the American Political Science Association and the International Studies Association and been featured by numerous media including the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, NPR, and the Washington Post.
Previously, Michael worked for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the U.S. Department of Defense, the RAND Corporation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He continues to advise offices within the U.S. Intelligence Community and U.S. Department of Defense.
Michael holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University. His first book, Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World’s Sole Superpower, was published in 2018 by Cornell University Press.
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Course Director, Music Psychology in Education, Performance and Wellbeing, University of Sheffield
I received my PhD and MA in Music Psychology from the University of Sheffield, where I am currently the Course Director of the MA in Music Psychology in Education, Performance and Wellbeing, and an Honorary Research Fellow. I am a longstanding Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Musicians (recently renamed as the Independent Society of Musicians), a registered trainer for the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
After an early career as a professional singer with international contracts, I developed a diverse portfolio of work as a performer, teacher, conductor, choral arranger, director and workshop leader. I have run my own professional theatre company, opera group and jazz ensemble, alongside maintaining a well-established private teaching practice. I have also taught extensively in primary and secondary schools, Further Education colleges and Higher Education institutions, including York St John University and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
My research interests include performance anxiety management; confidence building for performers; music and wellbeing; ensemble leadership; and group dynamics in musical contexts. I have a special interest in the practical applications of research, and regularly lead public engagement and training events based on my research, teaching and professional experience.
My participatory workshops have included voice training for transgender and non-binary people; group singing for people who self-identify as ‘non-singers’; using singing-related skills to support people with respiratory conditions and vocal disorders; music and wellbeing sessions for mental health service users; practical applications of performance psychology for singers, conductors and choir leaders; and developing confident performance in a wide range of musical and non-musical settings.
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Director, Melbourne Energy Institute, The University of Melbourne
Michael Brear is the Director of the Melbourne Energy Institute at the University of Melbourne. His own research concerns the technical, economic and environmental analysis of transport and energy systems, reciprocating engines and gas turbines, and combustion of conventional and alternative fuels.
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Professor of Sociology, Liverpool Hope University
Michael Brennan is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Head of the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, UK.
My research is focused around the social aspects of dying, death and bereavement, where I have authored, edited and published numerous books, journal articles and pieces written for educational and professional publications.
I have previously served as Director of the Center for Death Education and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA.
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Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University and Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University
Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of American University’s Center for Israel Studies and Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He received his PhD at Columbia University and taught previously at Indiana and Brandeis Universities. Since 1997 he has been Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. He had visiting appointments at numerous universities, including Haifa, Paris, Budapest, Vienna, Stanford, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins.
Professor Brenner is an elected fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Mantua. He is the International President of the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and serves on many academic boards, including the Jewish Museum of Berlin, the Israel Institute, the Center for European Studies of the University of Haifa and is board chair of the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His nine books have been translated into ten languages and include In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea; A Short History of the Jews; Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History; Zionism: A Brief History; The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany, After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany and, most recently, In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism. He is co-author of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times, for which he was awarded a National Jewish Book Award, and editor of nineteen books.
Professor Brenner was awarded with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. In 2020 he was the first recipient of the Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience.
Michael Brenner publishes widely in international media, including the Washington Post, the Times of Israel, and the Spiegel. His voice is heard frequently on PBS and international radio and TV stations.
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Conservation Science Fellow, Smithsonian Institution
I am a conservation ecologist interested in developing applied solutions to conservation challenges rooted in scientific understandings of population ecology and movement ecology. Examining these processes through the lens of spatial interactions over time, I hope to better understand how individuals and populations respond to changing environments - from seasonal variation in resource distribution to large scale human-driven disturbances- and exploring how an understanding of these interactions across spatiotemporal scales might be used to craft creative and meaningful conservation strategy.
I am committed to translating scientific findings into meaningful conservation strategy. As such, I work collaboratively with conservation organizations, government agencies and academic institutions to better understand and implement solutions to contemporary issues in biodiversity conservation. Conservation solutions are rooted in trust and understanding across cultural and political divides so I strive to integrate diverse perspectives of thinking and doing in collaborative conservation initiatives.
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Professor Emeritus of Oncology and Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Ontario
Michael Brundage, MD MSC FRCP(C) is a Professor Emeritus of Oncology and of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University in Kingston. His research focuses on patient-reported outcomes and quality of life measurement (both in clinical practice and in clinical trials) and on quality of cancer care, with an emphasis on quality initiatives in oncology. He has enjoyed the privilege of working with many national and international organizations including the International Society for Quality of Life Research, the Canadian Cancer Trials Group (for which he was a long-standing chair of the PRO outcomes group), and Cancer Quality Council of Ontario. He is the Past-President of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology, and former director of Cancer Care and Epidemiology at Queen’s University. He is co-PI for the PROTEUS Consortium (with the PI Dr. Claire Snyder) which promotes quality of PROs both in clinical practice and clinical trials internationally.
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Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia
Michael Byers holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia. He also co-directs the Outer Space Institute, a global network of space experts united by their commitment to transdisciplinary research that addresses grand challenges in the use and exploration of space. Together with astrophysicist Aaron Boley, Professor Byers is the co-author of a new book – Who Owns Outer Space? – that will soon be published by Cambridge University Press.
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Professor of History, Miami University
Michael L. Carrafiello is Professor of History at Miami University, Ohio. He holds a B. A. from Rollins College (Honors), and his graduate degrees (M. A., Ph. D.) are from Vanderbilt University. He has published and spoken widely on early modern English history and antebellum American history. Dr. Carrafiello’s articles have appeared in the Historical Journal, the Catholic Historical Review, and Pennsylvania History, among other periodicals. From 2000-09, he served as inaugural director of Miami University’s Michael J. Colligan History Project. His current long-term project concerns the administration of President James Buchanan and its role in fostering Southern secession during the winter of 1860-61.
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Dean of hospitality management, Florida International University
Dr. Michael Cheng is the Dean of Hospitality Management at Florida International University. He has expertise in competency-based learning, hospitality management & Culinology®. Cheng received both his B.S. and M.S. from the Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Hospitality Management from Iowa State Univ. He has been in higher education for 20+ years and established Culinology® degree—the blending of culinary arts & food science. He led and set new benchmarks for partnerships and fundraising, creating the 1st Endowed Professor of DEI in hospitality and the world’s only Bacardi Center of Excellence. Cheng is a published author of several peer-reviewed articles on Culinology® competencies. He is currently the co-author of the top-selling textbook, Hospitality Today: An Introduction.
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences & Environmental Conservation, Clemson University
Michael Childress, Ph.D., is an evolutionary behavioral ecologist studying the impact of climate change and behavioral adaptations in marine animals. His research has explored the impacts of (1) mass sponge mortality on the social behaviors of juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters, (2) drought on blue crab habitat use and disease, and (3) marine heat waves on the interactions between coral health and coral reef fishes. He teaches courses in marine ecology and climate sustainability and supervises a marine science research program for graduate and undergraduate science divers in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. He created a marine science - musical theatre STEAM program called Something Very Fishy to engage elementary school children in the wonders of our oceans and to raise awareness and interests in marine conservation.
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Professor of Geography, University of Sussex
Michael Collyer is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex. He is a political geographer with an interest in the relationship between people on the move and state institutions. His books include Migration (with Michael Samers) and Emigration Nations. He has held visiting fellowships around the world and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Washington. He currently chairs the Independent Advisory Group on Country of Origin Information, within the Office of the UK's Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. He also chairs Sanctuary on Sea, Brighton's City of Sanctuary group.
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Dr Michael A. Cowling is an information technologist with a keen interest in educational technology and technology ubiquity in the digital age, especially as it relates to International students and those from non-English speaking backgrounds.
He is currently a Visiting Project Scientist in the Department of Informatics at University of California Irvine (UCI), where he is on sabbatical from his substantive position as a Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at CQUniversity Australia.
Dr Cowling is the recipient of three CQUniversity Learning and Teaching grants related to teaching technology and was a 2015 recipient of the Vice-Chancellors Award for Outstanding Contribution to Learning & Teaching; as well as a 2007 recipient of the CQUniversity Award for Excellence in Learning & Teaching (International Campuses).
He is actively researching in the area of educational technology and technology ubiquity and has conducted numerous radio and print media interviews on the topic.
He was also a member of the Vice-Chancellors Excellence in Teaching Committee at CQUniversity and has written oped opinion pieces for The Courier Mail, Campus Review and Education Review.
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Assistant Professor / Agricultural Entomologist, University of Delaware
Dr. Crossley is an agricultural entomologist and molecular ecologist who integrates eco-informatics and population genomics approaches to understand how changing agricultural landscapes and management practices affect insect ecology and evolution. His research specifically explores the role of rapid evolution in driving pest success and seeks to develop and refine innovative pest management strategies that benefit growers, the environment and society.
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Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
For a couple of decades, I worked in philosophy of physics, especially quantum theory. After a (too-long) stint as an administrator, I have returned to civilian life, and am developing a new research expertise in philosophy of music. This new interest grows out of a lengthy training as a classical pianist and French horn player, a brief career as a professional musician before becoming a philosopher, and a continued abiding and serious interest in both musicology and musical performance. I am currently studying existing work in the field, and developing a few projects of my own.
In addition, I am reviving an old interest in medieval philosophy, originally developed as a graduate student, and subsequently as a teaching avocation at Indiana University, where I worked for ten years in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Specifically, I have an interest in medieval theories of truth and medieval aesthetics (and the connections between them), among other things.
I have also done some research in game theory, especially variations of signaling games. This work has included both analytical results and simulations of multi-agent systems.
Finally, I have done some work in what we might as well call 'epistemology of of philosophy', focused on the role that so-called 'intuitions' in fact play in contemporary philosophy (which is prominent in some areas) as compared to the role that I believe they should play (which is nil). My view in a nutshell is that rather than citing 'intuition' as a form of evidence, we should admit that we don't know, and just leave such things as 'thoughts deserving of further investigation'.
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Michael specialises in EU Law, particularly EU constitutional law, the Single Market and EU welfare law.
His work on the EU constitution and institutions covers processes of constitutional reform as well as the relationship between Union law and the national legal systems. He has published widely on the EU's constitutional framework after the Lisbon Treaty, on the principle of direct effect of Union law in national courts, and on the enforcement of Union law.
Michael has also written extensively on single market law, especially the free movement of goods, persons and services, and processes of harmonisation of Member State laws.
In the field of EU welfare law, Michael's research has focused on the interaction between free movement rights and social security entitlement and the impact of EU citizenship in this area. Michael looks in particular at the role played by the Court of Justice in shaping and delimiting citizenship and fundamental rights.
Together with other members of the Liverpool European Law Unit, Michael's research has contributed to wider public and political debates about European law. For example, Michael has provided written and oral evidence to a range of Parliamentary committees and enquiries; and acted as an external advisor to various Government departments and EU institutions on important developments - such as the enactment of the European Union Act 2011, the Review of the Balance of Competences Between the UK and the EU, and efforts to resolve the Eurozone crisis.
Michael is Joint Editor of the Common Market Law Review - the world's leading journal for European legal studies.
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Professor of Finance, Dublin City University
I specialise in financial technology research. My research tends to fuse technology advances with behavioural understanding applied to finance.
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As Deputy Director of the Energy Institute, Co-Director of the Clean Energy Incubator, Josey Centennial Fellow in Energy Resources, and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Michael E. Webber trains the next generation of energy leaders at the University of Texas at Austin through research and education at the convergence of engineering, policy, and commercialization. He has authored more than 200 publications, holds 4 patents, and serves on the advisory board for Scientific American. His television special Energy at the Movies is currently in national syndication on PBS stations, and his massive open online course (MOOC) “Energy 101” closed with record results in December. Webber holds a B.S. and B.A. from UT Austin and M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He was honored as an American Fellow of the German Marshall Fund, an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow, and on three separate occasions by the University of Texas for exceptional teaching.
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Studies, The University of Melbourne
I am a literary scholar by training, and a programmer by fascination. I connect these two sides of my work in two ways. The first way: I use computation to unweave literary texts, and discover beautiful patterns in their words. The second way: I use literature to unweave computation, drawing on the rich resources of literary tradition to understand the nature and role of software.
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Principal Research Fellow, University of Reading
My research focusses on invertebrate ecology in the agri-environment and primarily the impacts of farming practice and land management on the ecosystem services of pest control and pollination underpinning crop production. I have worked in many cropping systems including arable, soft fruit and top fruit production and my research is applied and often industry funded.
Specific areas of interest include:
– Insect pollination ecology and crop production
– Ecological intensification of smallholder farming systems
– Effects of agricultural practices on pests and natural enemies
– Trophic influences of soil fertility management in agricultural systems
– Integrated Pest Management.
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Professor of Landscape Archaeology, University of Glasgow
I am Professor of Landscape Archaeology in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Scotland. I specialise in historical and landscape archaeology, particularly in Cyprus and in Scotland, and am particularly interested in the relationship between people and environment. I have conducted archaeological survey in Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Scotland and Turkey. From 2017 to 2024 I was director of the publication phase of the Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus, and I an currently co-director of the Glencoe Archaeological Project.
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Professor of Physiology, Texas A&M University
I am a Professor of Physiology at Texas A&M University. My independent research program focuses on the interface between pregnancy and epigenetics, trying to understand how environmental exposures before conception or early in development cause disease later in life. Through this research, my lab seeks to define the biochemical mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance through sperm, determine how exposure to alcohol influences these processes, and identify the capacity of these heritable changes to contribute to the development of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs).
My long-term goals are to change the narrative on the origins of alcohol-induced birth defects, define epigenetic mechanisms of paternal inheritance, and provide an entertaining yet impactful learning experience to future professionals in the biomedical sciences.
My research is supported by the NIH (R01AA028219) and a Medical Research Grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation and focuses on defining the epigenetic mechanisms by which paternal drinking influences the development of alcohol-induced congenital disabilities.
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